🎪 SillySites

Serious About Silly

A playful platform for developers to showcase their creative, fun, and experimental web projects.

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✨ Features

🎨 Developer Portal Submit and manage your creative web projects with ease	👀 Public Gallery Browse and explore an endless collection of silly sites
🏆 Leaderboard Track top developers and popular projects in real-time	⚡ Real-time Updates Live like counts and site rankings that update instantly
🛡️ Admin Dashboard Powerful admin panel to review and approve submissions

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend Magic ✨

Backend Power 💪

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📂 Project Structure

🎪 SillySites/
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├── 🎨 Silly/          # Public-facing website (The fun stuff!)
├── 👨‍💻 Devs/           # Developer portal (Your creative hub)
├── 🛡️ Admin/          # Admin dashboard (Command center)
└── ⚙️ backend/        # API server (The brain)

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🚀 Getting Started

📋 Prerequisites

Before diving in, make sure you have:

• 📦 Node.js (v18 or higher)
• 🍃 MongoDB
• 🔴 Redis (optional, for caching)

💻 Installation

1️⃣ Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/SN7k/SillySites.git
cd SillySites

2️⃣ Backend Setup

cd backend
npm install
cp .env.example .env
# 🔧 Configure your environment variables
npm run dev

3️⃣ Frontend Applications

🎨 Public Site cd Silly npm install npm run dev

👨‍💻 Developer Portal cd Devs npm install npm run dev

🛡️ Admin Dashboard cd Admin npm install npm run dev

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🔐 Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the backend directory:

PORT=5000
MONGODB_URI=your_mongodb_connection_string
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
REDIS_URL=your_redis_url (optional)
NODE_ENV=development

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📜 Available Scripts

Backend ⚙️

Command	Description
npm run dev	🔥 Start development server
npm run build	📦 Build for production
npm start	🚀 Run production server
npm test	🧪 Run tests

Frontend ✨

Command	Description
npm run dev	🔥 Start development server
npm run build	📦 Build for production
npm run preview	👀 Preview production build

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🌐 API Endpoints

Endpoint	Description
/api/public	🌍 Public site endpoints
/api/dev	👨‍💻 Developer portal endpoints
/api/admin	🛡️ Admin management endpoints

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🤝 Contributing

We love contributions! 💖 Feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. 🍴 Fork the project
2. 🌿 Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. 💾 Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. 📤 Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. 🎉 Open a Pull Request

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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👨‍💻 Author

Shombhunath Karan

🙏 Acknowledgments

✨ Built with modern web technologies
💡 Inspired by the creative web development community
🎨 Designed for developers who love to experiment and have fun

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⭐ Star this repo if you find it interesting!